How to Align Android Toast as Centered

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How to Align Android Toast as Centered

I saw many related questions in StackOverflow and All over the Internet, but they align the toast centered to the display. But, I want to display the text-centered to my toast!

My Code to display my Toast

   timeout_on = Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Screen Timeout is Enabled (Your screen will doesn't sleep from now!)", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
   timeout_on.show();

Does this answer your question? [Center text in a toast in Android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3522023/center-text-in-a-toast-in-android) — Zakaria Boukaddouss, Jul 19 '21 at 08:37

Zakaria Boukaddouss · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-19T15:00:52.930

Try the following:

Toast timeout_on = Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Screen Timeout is Enabled (Your screen will doesn't sleep from now!)", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
TextView v = (TextView) timeout_on.getView().findViewById(android.R.id.message);
if( v != null) v.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
timeout_on.show();

This code gets the instance of the TextView inside of your Toast and gives you more room for customization (like setting your text's gravity/alignment).

Answer adopted from Marc's Answer

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '21 at 08:38

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kotlin:

val toast = Toast.makeText(context, "Test", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0)
toast.show()

java:

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, "Test", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
toast.show();

answered Jul 19 '21 at 08:38

Hassan

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Your code is useful when centering the toast. But I want to center my Toast's text only! – Sam Joshua Jul 19 '21 at 09:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '21 at 08:34

Toast is built on a TextView and as you can see by default is left aligned. Create your own text view with the alignment you want and set it to your Toast view

<TextView  
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
    android:text="all the text you want"
/>

And you assign the TextView to the Toast like this :

Toast t = new Toast(yourContext);
t.setView(yourNewTextView);

How to Align Android Toast as Centered